Apparatus for assembling and anchoring moldable inserts in sandwich panels



Nov. 16, 1965 F. w. ROHE ETAL 3,217,363

, APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLING AND ANCHORING MOLDABLE INSERTS IN SANDWICH PANELS Original Filed April 20, 1962 IN VENTORS FEEDER/6W 11 30/15 BY flan/71.5.5 J. I f/ELAN Arm/mar United States Patent 3 217,363 APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLING AND AN- CHORING MOLDABLE INSERTS IN SAND- WICH PANELS Frederick W. Rohe, 5191 S. Bradford, Placentla, Cal|f.,

and Charles S. Phelan, Tustin, Calif; said Phelan assignor to said lRohe Original application Apr. 20, 1962, Ser. No. 189,194. Divided and this application Dec. 23, 1963, Ser. No. 332,437

8 Claims. (Cl. 1830) This application is a division of our pending application Serial No. 189,194, filed April 20, 1962. This invention relates to the installation of structural fasteners in lightweight, fragile-core sandwich panels, such fasteners being commonly known in the trade as molded insert fas teners. This type of fastener includes an insert having a head in the form of a fiat disc and a tubular body for reception of a fastener part such as a screw, and is anchored by means of a surrounding molded body of solidified resin potting material, within a hole bored through a skin sheet on one side of the panel and through the core, terminating adjacent the opposite skin sheet.

The most common insert of this general type is one in which the insert head is freely receivable in the circular aperture of the bored skin sheet, with its outer face exactly flush with the outer surface of such skin sheet, and with no direct mechanical connection between the head and the skin sheet itself. Such an insert however, has for many years presented problems of installation for which a more satisfactory solution than those hitherto available has been greatly needed.

The general object of this invention is to provide an improved apparatus for temporarily positioning and hold ing such an insert in the panel hole with the insert head flush with the bored skin sheet while injecting a potting compound or adhesive into the panel hole to form an anchoring body around the insert. In the past, the common method of installing such insert has been to fill the hole with a measured quantity of resin (e.g. epoxy) in liquid condition, mixed with a curing agent; to then project the insert into the hole until its head is fitted in the skin aperture; and to then hold it in that position while the resin sets. Accurate positioning of the head in the plane of the apertured skin sheet so as to position the insert axis normal to the skin sheet, is required in order that satisfactory attachment of other parts to the panel can be established through the insert, and this can be accomplished by utilizing a suitable installation tool for holding the insert in its proper position until the resin has set sufiiciently to hold the insert, but such operation is time-consuming and therefore expensive in labor cost.

In addition to the flush-head insert referred to above, the prior art has also provided an insert of a snap-in type, having a thicker head with an annular groove in its periphery to receive the margin of the skin sheet aperture, and having a frusto-conical expander shoulder leading up to the groove, and adapted when forced through the skin sheet aperture, to stretch the margin of the aperture sufiiciently to snap through the aperture and seat the aperture margin in the annular groove of the insert head. However, we have found that in many instances the stresses thus set-up in the skin sheet around the aperture will cause the surrounding area of the skin sheet to warp and in some cases the insert will consequently be mounted in a position deviating somewhat from a true perpendicular relation to the surrounding skin sheet. In all cases, the insert head will project beyond the plane of the skin sheet, since it embodies a flange of substantial thickness defining the outer side of its annular peripheral groove, which outer flange overlaps the skin sheet. For these reasons, the insert with the flush-type head has been the preferred type, despite the much more difficult problems of rapid installation of this type than in the installation of the snap-in type.

In an effort to improve the earlier method of installing the flush-type insert by reducing the number of steps required therein, the art has more recently provided an improvement therein, involving the use of an insert with a port in its flush head, and the injection of the liquid resin from a gun through such port while the insert is held, by a suitable attachment to the gun, in a position centered in the hole in the panel and with its head received in flush relation in the skin sheet aperture. Here again, in using the gun to hold the insert temporarily in place, the gun is immobilized until the resin has set suificiently to permit removal of the gun, and the need for a faster method of installing the flush head insert has endured throughout that stage of development of the art.

The object of our invention is to provide an apparatus for holding, inserting and effecting temporary attachment of a flush-type insert in a hole in a sandwich panel, with accurate placement of the insert axis normal to the outer face of the skin sheet defining the mouth of the hole, and with the insert head in flush relation to said outer face, and which apparatus can be readily detached from the insert while the potting resin is still soft, and immediately used for installation of other such inserts while the resin is hardening around the insert that has been installed.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved apparatus for anchoring an insert in a sandwich panel, in which the hole can be completely filled with the liquid resin without leaving air pockets therein and can be accurately filled without extruding resin past the insert head, whereby the necessity for cleaning away extruded excess resin is eliminated.

A further object is to provide an improved plastic-injection gun nozzle to attain the object stated in the previous paragraph. Another object is to provide an improved gun nozzle which does not become clogged with residual resin at the end of a period of use of the same. Other objects and advantages will become apparent in the ensuing specifications and appended drawing in which: FIG. 1 is a fragmentary sectional view of a sandwich panel; an insert in the process of being installed therein;

0 our improved gun nozzle utilized in such installation; and

its connection to an extrusion gun;

FIG. 2 is an end view of the face of the gun nozzle;

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of the gun nozzle taken on the line 33 of FIG. 1, viewing the front end of the liner in end elevation;

FIG. 4 is a side elevational View, partially in axial sec tion, of a preferred form of our improved insert;

FIG. 5 is a head end view of the same;

FIG. 6 is a side elevational view, partially in section, of a modified form of the insert.

General description Referring now to FIG. 1 of the drawings, we have shown therein, as an illustrative example, one of our im proved inserts, indicated generally at A, in the process of being installed in a sandwich panel B by an injection nozzle C attached to a gun D. The details of the gun do not form any part of the present invention and accordingly, only enough of the gun to illustrate the attachment of the nozzle C thereto, is shown. The sandwich panel B, shown by way of illustration of the general type of panel to which the invention may be applied, is one wherein spaced skin sheets It) and 11 are united to the edges of a series of honeycomb cells constituting the lightweight, fragile core 12 of the panel. The core 12 may be fabricated of thin metal foil, of impregnated paper, or other equivalent material. The skin sheets 10 and 11 may be sheet metal (cg. thin aluminum sheet) or may be of hard plastic or hard fibre (resin-impregnated paper) suitably bonded to the edges of the core cells by a suitable cement or other equivalent material.

In general, the invention provides for the preliminary insertion of the insert A irfio a hole bored through the skin sheet and substantially through the core 12, resulting in a cavity in the core which includes an annular series of pockets Surrounding a bored cylindrical central area. Where the bored hole passes through the skin sheet 1th, a circular aperture 16 is provided, the peripheral pockets of cavity 15 projecting radially beyond the aperture 16.

The invention provides, in the insert A, a circular disc head of slightly smaller diameter than the aperture 16, receivable therein with a sufficiently close fit to function as a stopper closing the aperture, and provided with means for temporarily securing the same to the margin of aperture 16 pending the injection of potting compound 17 to fill the cavity 15.

The nozzle C may be used as the tool for pressing the insert into place in the panel hole, having means for mounting the insert thereon in coaxial relation thereto and having means for locating against the outer surface of skin sheet 10 to position the head of the insert in accurately flush relationship to the skin sheet when the head has been pressed into place in aperture 16 although a separate installation tool can be employed for this step. After the insert has been pressed into position, the nozzle C functions to inject the potting compound 17 through the insert head into the cavity 15, and when the cavity is filled, the nozzle can be withdrawn, leaving the insert self-supported in the aperture 16 during the period required for curing of the potting compound 17. The 1102- zle C has a self-cleaning feature which will be described hereinafter.

The insert A, in a preferred form (FIGS. 4 and 5) comprises a tubular body 20, which may be cylindrical as shown, a mounting head 21 in the form of an integral fl-at circular radial flange on one end of body 20, and an anchor head 22 of smaller radius, in the form of an integral radial flange on the other end of body 20. The body has a bore 23 which preferably is internally threaded at 24 for at least a portion of its length, and

may have a closed bottom defined by an integral central portion 25 of anchor head 22.

With the internal thread 24, the insert body 20 functions as a nut to receive a screw inserted through the mounting head 21, and the body 20 is provided with a suitable thread lock which, in the particular form of the invention shown in FIG. 4, is embodied in a radially inward deformation (so labelled in FIG. 4) of a reduced thickness neck 26 in an intermediate portion of body 20, the neck being defined by an external annular groove in the body 20.

Preferably, the anchor head 22 has a non-circular periphery which may have varying configurations as more specifically described hereinafter, but which, in the particular form shown in FIG. 4, is provided with one or more flat faces 27 interrupting an otherwise circular periphery. Thus, the head 22 may comprise a pair of diametrically opposed flats 27 and a pair of intervening circular segments of periphery. The flats 27 interlock with the potting compound 17 to lock the insert in the panel against rotation in response to torque forces imposed thereon during the insertion and removal of a screw. -In the installed assembly shown in FIG. 1, the head 22 is spaced from the skin sheet 11 by a space which is filled by a layer 28 of pot-ting compound, providing an adhesive connection between the head 22 and the skin sheet 11.

Attachment of mounting head 21. to skin sheet 10 is provided for by one or more small radial anchor teeth 29 on the otherwise circular periphery of the head. Teeth 29 have a height somewhat greater than the clearance space between the periphery of head 21 and the skin sheet aperture 16, so as to intersect and embed themselves in the aperture margin when the insert head is forced into the aperture. However, they are of sufficiently small volume so as to pierce the aperture margin without causing the skin sheet to become warped or depressed below its own plane. For example, where the insert head 21 has a diameter of one half inch and a clearance of .005 inch between its periphery and the margin of aperture 16, the mounting teeth 29 may have a radial height approximately in the range of .007 inch to .02 inch. The anchor teeth 29 are preferably of chisel-edge form, with an isosceles-triangular end contour as seen in FIG. 5, so as to enter the aperture 16 with a lancing action in the margin of the aperture, which can be effected by applying relatively light end pressure to the head as it is pushed into the aperture. In the head 21. are a pair of ports 30, one of which is utilized as an inlet for injection of the potting compound 17 through the head 16, and the other of which functions as a vent for the escape of air from the cavity 15 as it is displaced by the potting compound entering the cavity, and also functions as an inspection port.

Nozzle C comprises a cylindrical barrel 40 having at one end a male thread 41 for coupling into an internally threaded socket 42 of an adapter fitting 43; and having at its other end an integral anvil 44 in the form of a thick circular coaxial disc which. projects as a radial flange from the barrel 40. Insert head 21 is pressed firmly into full contact with the face of anvil 44 by the resistance of skin sheet 10 to the penetration of anchor teeth 29. The barrel and anvil may be fabricated as a casting of aluminum or other suitable material. In the center of anvil 44 is a cylindrical axial bore 45 in which is mounted, by a press-fit, a pilot 46 of a tough, wear-resistant, slightly compressible material such as nylon or polyethylene, having a diameter such as to be received in the internally threaded section 24 of insert A with a close fit such that the insert will engage the pilot with a light (not tight) frictional engagement and be thereby held with its head 21 snugly seated against the front face of anvil 44 when the insert has been pressed onto the pilot.

In the anvil 44, at one side of its center, is an axially extending passage 47. In the opposite side of the anvil is a window 48 in the form of a radial slot having a width at least equal to the diameter of a port 30 which is adapted to be registered with the bottom area of the window 48. The bottom wall 49 of the slot is inclined forwardly toward the axis of the nozzle from the periphery of the barrel 40 where it joins the back face of anvil 44 to a radius at least as close to the axis as the inner extremity of port 39. Thus it becomes possible for the operator to sight through the window 48 during the step of injecting the potting compound into cavity 15, keeping the vent port 30 in full view until the potting compound has filled the cavity 15 and commences to exude through the vent port 30 which will indicate to him that the injection of potting compound is to be arrested.

In the forward face of anvil 44 are a plurality of shallow concentric annular grooves 50 adapted to receive any excess potting compound which may inadvertently be extruded from the vent aperture 30, avoiding the possibility of the compound creeping between the face of the anvil and the insert head 21 and establishing an adhesive bond which. might dislodge the insert as the gun is pulled away from the panel.

The barrel 40 defines, within itself, a chamber for the transfer of potting compound from gun D to the panel cavity 15, said chamber including a cylindrical bore 51, a funnel area defined by a wall 52 of asymmetrical conical contour, converging uniformly in straight lines from the cross sectional contour of bore 51 to the small cross sectional contour of passage 47.

Passage 47 is positioned with its outer side aligned with the cylindrical wall of bore 51. The barrel chamber, and the passage 47, are lined by a thin-walled, disposable plastic liner including a cylindrical portion 53, a conical portion 54 fitted to the funnel wall 52, and a tubular nozzle tip 55 fitted snugly within the passage 47. The rear end of cylindrical body 53 is open and is provided with a radially outwardly projecting flange 56 which is clamped between the rear end of barrel 41 and an oifset radial shoulder wall 57 of adapter fitting 43. Fitting 43 includes an externally threaded neck 58 joined to the socket 42 by the offset portion which defines radial shoulder wall 57.

The nozzle 55 is of length such as to project beyond the forward face of the anvil 44 and into the inlet port 30 of insert head 21 as shown in FIG. 1. The liner 5355 is preferably of a medium soft plastic material such as polyethylene, such as to conform readily to the wall contours of barrel 41 to receive support therefrom, and such that the tip 55 can be snugly fitted in the inlet port 30 so as to be substantially sealed against back-flow of the potting compound through the inlet port 30.

' Gun D may be of any suitable known type having a .piston 60 for applying pressure to a body of potting compound contained within the housing 61, and delivered under pressure through an internally threaded collar 62 into the adapter neck 58 threaded into the collar 62.

When a period fo use of the gun is terminated, the nozzle unit C is unscrewed from the collar 62, the adapter 43 is removed from the barrel 40, thus exposing the flange 56, the latter is pried loose from the endof barrel 40 and is grasped to withdraw the liner 5355 from the barrel 40, and the liner with its residual potting compound therein is discarded as waste material. This leaves the internal surfaces of the barrel 40 and passage 47 clean, without any potting compound adhering thereto. The-two sections of the nozzle assembly may then be further cleaned in a suitable solvent to remove any vestiges of the potting compound, and so as to be in proper condition for the next period of use. The gun is, of course, cleaned in accordance with conventional practice.

Use of the device will now be clearly apparent from a brief review of the installation procedures hereinbefore referred to. In preparing a panel for a series of inserts located on predetermined centers, such centers are marked onthe panel, or located by a suitable jig, and a series of holes are then bored in the panel, using a suitable endcutting boring tool, of the proper diameter to provide bores just slightly larger in diameter than the heads of the inserts that are to be installed.

The gun is then loaded with a prepared liquid mixture of resin and catalyst, the nozzle assembly C is fitted with a fresh liner, its two sections are coupled together, and it is then attached to the gun. In succession, a series of inserts A are attached to the forward face of anvil 44 by pushing the pilot 46 into the threaded bore of each insert and pressing the end face of the insert head 21 into full seating engagement with the face of anvil 44, after first rotating the insert until one of its ports 30 registers with the anvil window 48 and its other port 30 registers with and receives the projecting end portion of nozzle tip 55. Using the gun as a handle, the insert is then projected through a selected aperture 16 and its head 21 fitted in the aperture. End pressure is then applied to force the anchor teeth 29 into the aperture margin, until the forward face of anvil 44 is in full face-to-face contact with the skin sheet 10. This will automatically result in the proper positioning of the insert in coaxial relation to the cavity and with its head 21 in fl-ush relation to skin sheet 10. The gun is then operated to express the potting compound through the nozzle unit C and its tip 55, thence through the inlet port 30 of the insert and into the cavity 15, gradually filling the same. Entrapped air in the cavity will be vented through the vent port 30 and the window 48. During the filling operation, the operator will inspect the vent port 30 through the window 48 until the potting compound appears in the vent port 30, whereupon he will discontinue the injection operation and will promptly pull the gun away from the panel, withdrawing the pilot 46 from the bore of the insert and Withdrawing the nozzle 55 from the inlet port 30. The attachment of the head 21 to the skin sheet 10 by the embedding of anchor teeth 29 in the margin of aperture 16 suflices to hold the insert securely in its coaxial, flush position in the panel, without being dislodged by the withdrawal of the parts 46 and 55; and will continue to support the insert in its coaxial, flush position until the potting compound 17 has set sufficiently to provide adequate support. As the potting compound hardens around the insert, it provides a secure interlocking engagement with the insert and with the inner face of skin sheet 10 at the ends of the radially projecting pocket portions of cavity 15, such as to securely resist displacement of the insert from its fixed position in the panel, under the torque load of screwing a fastener screw into the insert, or under axial load transmitted through the screw to the insert from a part that is attached to the panel by the insert.

The converging funnel portion 54 of the nozzle liner is such as to eliminate any corner pockets in which potting compound could escape from the flowing stream of compound passing through the nozzle and harden so as to eventually obstruct the nozzle tip 55. It provides a converging approach from the large cross sectional area of cylindrical portion 53 to the relatively small cross sectional area of nozzle tip 55, wherein all areas are subjected to the scavenging flow of the potting compound through the nozzle and cannot encourage the build-up of a deposit of hardened compound.

FIG. 6 illustrates a desirable modification of the insert shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, wherein the tubular insert body 20a has an enlarged shoulder portion 70 having a cylindrical radial bore in which is mounted a locking pellet 71 of a tough, slightly yieldable plastic material such as nylon, having an inner end projecting for interference engagement with the threads of the screw that is threaded into bore 24a. The ports 30a in head 21 have extended portions 72 in the form of channels in opposite sides of shoulders 70, and such channels will be filled by potting material, which, when hardened, will form ribs or keys interlocking with the shoulder 70 to resist torque loads to which the insert may be subjected. In this case, the anchor head 22a may the of plain circular flange form.

One of the important advantages of our improved insert and device for its installation is the ease with which they can be utilized in either vertical or overhead panels.

It should be understood that the invention, as it relates to the nozzle attachment, is not restricted to any specific configuration in the means on the insert body for inter locking engagement with the body of potting material. Any projection, recess or surface of non-circular crosssection which will establish a shear relationship to the contacting potting material, suflicient to provide adequate torque load holding action, may be employed.

The teeth 29 may be any projecting means of any selected configuration for establishing interference coupling of the head 21 to the margin of aperture 16 either by piercing action as hereinbefore described, or otherwise.

We claim:

1. An injection gun nozzle attachment for injecting potting material through an inlet port disposed eccentrically in a circular disc head of an insert having a tubular body receivable in a hole in a sandwich panel embodying a low density core sandwiched between spaced skin sheets, extending through said core and terminating adjacent the other skin sheet, said attachment comprising: a barrel having at one end means for attachment to a potting material injection gun and at its other end an anvil having a forward face normal to its longitudinal axis, for locating engagement against said one skin sheet to properly locate the insert in said hole, and having a window for viewing an inspection port in said insert head; a pilot secured to said anvil and projecting from said forward face, normal thereto, and receivable with a piloting action in said tubular insert body; and a nozzle tip positioned eccentrically relative to said pilot for reception in said inlet port when said inspection port is in view through said window, for injecting said potting material into said hole around said insert unitil it commences to exude through said inspection port.

2. An injection gun nozzle attachment for injecting potting material through a port disposed eccentrically in a circular disc head of an insert having a tubular body receivable in a hole in a sandwich panel embodying a low density core sandwiched between spaced skin sheets, with said hole beginning with an aperture in one skin'sheet, said attachment comprising: a barrel having at one end means for attachment to a potting material injection gun and at its other end an anvil with a forward face normal to its longitudinal axis, for locating engagement against said one skin sheet, a pilot secured to said anvil and projecting from said forward face, normal thereto, and receivable with a piloting action in said tubular insert body, said barrel having a chamber to receive potting material from the gun and an outlet opening in said anvil; a liner of thin flexible material fitted within said chamber and including an integral tubular nozzle tip projecting through said opening and receivable in said insert port, for directing the potting material through said insert head into said hole around said insert.

3. A nozzle attachment as defined in claim 2, including an adapter having an internally threaded socket said barrel having an externally threaded shank adapted to be coupled into said socket, said adapter having an offset annular shoulder wall, and said liner having a radially outwardly projecting flange receivable between said shoulder wall and the end of said shank. v

4. Apparatus for installation of an insert comprising a tubular body having at one end a circular disc head provided with an eccentrically disposed injection port and with minute anchorage projections on its periphery, into a sandwich panel embodying a low-density core sandwiched between spaced skin sheets, with said hole beginning with an aperture in one skin sheet, said apparatus comprising: a barrel having at one end an anvil providing a broad flat forward face for fiat face-to-face engagement with the outer face of said one skin sheet, having a pilot projecting at right angles from said anvil face and receivable with a piloting action within said tubular body so as to support said insert with the outer face of said head seated against said anvil face and with the insert axis normal thereto, said barrel having an outlet opening in said anvil, eccentric to said pilot and a nozzle tip projecting from said opening and receivable in said port when said insert is supported on said pilot, said pilot and anvil cooperating to elfect insertion of said insert into said panel hole, to

press said head into said skin sheet aperture while effecting embedment of said projections in the aperture margin of said one skin sheet, and to position the insert in said hole with the insert axis in normal relation to said one skin sheet, followed by injection of potting compound through said nozzle tip and said port into said hole to provide an anchoring body in said panel around said insert, and said pilot being readily removable from said insert immediately upon completion of the filling of said hole, to leave the insert temporarily supportedby the anchorage of said head projections in said one skin sheet so as to maintain said'insert properly positioned during hardening of said potting compound in said hole. I

5. Apparatus as defined in claim 4, specially adapted for installation of an insert having in its head an inspection port in addition to said injection port, said anvil having a view slot extending radially from said pilot diametrically opposite said nozzle tip, adapted to register with said inspection port to permit the operator to view said inspection port during injection of compound.

6. Apparatus as defined in claim 5, wherein said anvil face is provided with a plurality of shallow annular grooves concentric with said pilot and adapted to receive any potting compound extruded through said inspection port and to inhibit the creeping of said potting compound between the anvil face and the outer face of said insert head, whereby to prevent adhesive attachment of the insert head to said anvil.

7. Apparatus as defined in claim 4, wherein said noz- Zle' is of thin-walled flexible material such as to be snugly receivable in said port and to substantially be sealed against back-flow of the potting compound through said port during said injection.

8. Apparatus as defined in claim 4, wherein said pilot is of tough, wear-resistant, slightly compressible material of cylindrical form having a diameter such as to closely fit within said tubular body with a light, readily releasable frictional engagement for holding the insert against the anvil.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,367,204 1/1945 Cousino 18-30 2,505,602 4/1951 Bertrand 18-30 2,568,332 9/1951 Gen-ovese 1812 2,747,226 5/1956 Schnitzuis et a1. 18--30 3,007,202 11/1961 Wuoher 18-30 3,016,578 1/1962 Rohe 189-34 XR 3,088,169 5/1963 Wentorf.

FOREIGN PATENTS 448,442 5/ 1948 Canada.

OTHER REFERENCES German specification, DAS 1,113,880, July 26, 1962.

WILLIAM J. STEPHENSON, Primary Examiner.

MICHAEL V, BRINDISI, Examiner. 

1. AN INJECTION GUN NOZZLE ATTACHMENT FOR INJECTING POTTING MATERIAL THROUGH AN INLET PORT DISPOSED ECCENTRICALLY IN A CIRCULAR DISC HEAD OF AN INSERT HAVING A TUBULAR BODY RECEIVABLE IN A HOLE IN A SANDWICH PANEL EMBODYING A LOW DENSITY CORE SANDWICHED BETWEEN SPACED SKIN SHEETS, EXTENDING THROUGH SAID CORE AND TERMINATING ADJACENT THE OTHER SKIN SHEET, SAID ATTACHMENT COMPRISING: A BARREL HAVING AT ONE END MEANS FOR ATTACHMENT TO A POTTING MATERIAL INJECTION GUN AND AT ITS OTHER END AN ANVIL HAVING A FORWARD FACE NORMAL TO ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS, FOR LOCATING ENGAGEMENT AGAINST SAID ONE SKIN SHEET TO PROPERLY LOCATE THE INSERT IN SAID HOLE, AND HAVING A WINDOW FOR VIEWING AN INSPECTION PORT IN SAID INSERT HEAD; A PILOT SECURED TO SAID ANVIL AND PROJECTING FROM SAID FORWARD FACE, NORMAL THERETO, AND RECEIVABLE WITH A PILOTING ACTION IN SAID TUBULAR INSERT BODY; AND A NOZZLE TIP POSITIONED ECCENTRICALLY RELATIVE TO SAID PILOT FOR RECEPTION IN SAID INLET PORT WHEN SAID INSPECTION PORT IS IN VIEW THROUGH SAID WINDOW, FOR INJECTING SAID POTTING MATERIAL INTO SAID HOLE AROUND SAID INSERT UNTIL IT COMMENCES TO EXUDE THROUGH SAID INSPECTION PORT. 